But it was just the opposite if it occurred close to noon: snowy, rainy, stormy, disagreeable".
After the day got off to a delayed rainy, stormy start, local talents Willis Earl Beal and Outer Minds impressed with performances so enchanting they were topped by few of the more established acts that followed.
The narrator of the story says, "We felt good sitting in a circle on a rainy, stormy night, singing old songs from the days when everything had seemed so clear and bright".
Whoever came up with this idea should get an award, because this was making life a lot easier now -- when so many people are out of power, with no place to go, on a windy, rainy, stormy day, with a need to be in contact with those they loved.
Black Swifts are often seen foraging low over bodies of water (Lord 1866; Rathbun 1925; Burleigh 1929; Udvardy 1954) during periods of cloudy, foggy, rainy or stormy weather and low barometric pressure, presumably because their aerial insect prey are found at lower altitudes, as opposed to clear days when thermals may develop to carry the insects higher.
During its daily two-minute sequence, which includes a trumpet fanfare, mist, and flashing lights, the machine displays one of three metal symbols as a prediction of the weather for the following 24-hour period: a sun for clear and sunny weather, a blue heron for drizzle and transitional weather, or a dragon and mist for rainy or stormy weather.
Do not fly your kite if the upcoming weather is going to be rainy or stormy.
Appropriately, it has been a dark and stormy (OK, rainy) night on the shores of Lake Geneva, where I and other Frankenstein-botherers have been gathering at the Brocher Foundation, a few miles from the grand villa where Mary was staying with Lord Byron, her future husband Percy and associated hangers-on.
Even during the stormiest, rainiest days at the end of the season, guests were in good spirits, braving the cold, wet weather for heli-fishing, horseback riding and wildlife viewing tours out on the open sea to see gray whales, sea lions, sea otters and black bears along the beach flipping over rocks in search of crabs for lunch.
It's a quick turnaround for the MotoGP teams as we head straight from stormy Spain to rainy Portugal - and we look set for lightning and all sorts this weekend.
With conditions in the global economy still dark and stormy, the need to set aside money for a rainy day, or a rainy retirement, can hardly be more apparent.
